Performance variation from triphenylamine- to carbazole-triphenylamine- rhodaniline-3-acetic acid dyes in dye-sensitized solar cells

Materials Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 130, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 635-643

  Yang, Chien Hsin ^a   Lin, Wen Churng ^b   Wang, Tzong Liu ^a   Shieh, Yeong Tarng ^a   Chen, Wen Janq ^a   Liao, Shao Hong ^a   Sun, Yu Kuang ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KAOHSIUNG   (Taiwan)

^b KUN SHAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Carbazole triphenylamine (CTPA) based organic dyes; Dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs); Electrochemical impedance; Knoevenagel condensation reaction

Indexed keywords

ACID DYE; ACID GROUPS; BIPYRIDYL; CHARGE TRANSFER EFFICIENCY; DYE COMPOUND; DYE MOLECULE; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; KNOEVENAGEL CONDENSATION; LIGHT-HARVESTING; NANOCRYSTALLINE TIO; ORGANIC DYE; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; PERFORMANCE VARIATIONS; PHOTOPHYSICAL; SENSITIZED CELLS; TIO; TRIPHENYLAMINES;

ACETIC ACID; CARBOXYLATION; CHARGE TRANSFER; CONDENSATION REACTIONS; DYES; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROCHEMICAL CORROSION; ELECTRON MOBILITY; EXCITED STATES; ION EXCHANGE; MOLECULES; PH; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; RUTHENIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 80052564923     PISSN: 02540584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matchemphys.2011.07.038     Document Type: Article

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